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Canada has joined the United States’ Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) Communications System. The move is to fill the strategic satellite communications requirements of the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.
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U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a programme dubbed Galileo that seeks to bridge the precision fibre optic controls and long-baseline astronomical interferometry technical communities to enable imaging of objects in geostationary orbit faster than is possible today.
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SES and Georgian mobile and telecommunication company MagtiCom announced the launch of MagtiSat, Georgia’s first domestic direct-to-home (DTH) satellite platform, via Astra. The pay-TV offer will be available beginning 23 January 2012.
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Russia’s new Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said he will oversee the probe into the reasons of the Fobos-Grunt mission failure.
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Antwerp Space NV, a subsidiary of OHB AG, and ESA signed a contract for the design and development of a next generation of the Advanced Data Acquisition System, also known as OMNISAT.
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SIS LIVE, operator of the largest satellite uplink fleet in Europe, is ramping up its access to permanent capacity on satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications.
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